This documentary really opened my eyes. It was so fascinating to learn about how wrongly Native Americans were portrayed in cinema throughout American film history. It makes me mad and at the end, also happy. In the middle I even cried a little at the part with the school kids. This was a really good and really important documentary. I think everybody should know about this, and help bring awareness to the issues discussed in it. It's so, so important.
My favourite part was learning about how some native Americans in film would say whatever they want in their native language and nobody bothered to translate it until recently, and they said such a great insults. That was some good revenge. I also loved the whole part about the guy who trained kids to fall off horses for stunts. That looked so cool and so dangerous. Horses can be so scary.
It is pretty sad though, how we continued to neglect and misrepresent native Americans in film for so long, and still today. They deserve better, more frequent representation. They were here first, why shouldn't they get more attention? It makes me a little mad. But, regardless, the documentary was really good and I learned so much.
Warnings for Real Injun: full frontal male nudity at one point, some blood, mentions of genocide, lots of shots of people and some horses getting shot, but it's honestly not that bad when you watch it. It's kind of background stuff.
Warnings for Real Injun: full frontal male nudity at one point, some blood, mentions of genocide, lots of shots of people and some horses getting shot, but it's honestly not that bad when you watch it. It's kind of background stuff.